FIRST EDITION. Niebuhr was the only survivor of an expedition sent by the King of Denmark to Arabia. Amongst the other members were the philologist van Haven, the naturalist Forskal, a surgeon and an artist: none of whom survived. The present detailed work covers most aspects of the trip, but concentrate largely on the journey itself: the expedition travelled via Constantinople, to Cairo, then Arabia: the Yemen, Persia, Syria and Palestine. The expedition acted as a spur to the study of cunieform: as Niebuhr returned with a large number of examples, particularly from Persepolis. Brunet IV.74; Cox I, 237; Lipperheide Lc6.